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In Reply to: RE: Pike? Suwanai or Yoo? Sibelius Violin Concerto Releases by the Cupload.... posted by steve.ott@kctcs.edu on September 23, 2016 at 21:40:39
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To me, this is one of the better-recorded early stereo Columbia LPs I've heard. Maybe the stereo effect is too pronounced, and it lacks the coherence of the best early RCA stereo LPs, but it has great clarity and spaciousness.
You must be funning us calling it primitive. Naughty jdaniel!
As for David Oistrakh, it's uncanny how his version or versions of almost every standard from Bach and Vivaldi to Hindemith and Shostakovich turn out to be so hard to beat, despite dozens of new versions as the decades roll on. His concept is always dead on, and his execution is always dead on, whether live or studio, and regardless of where and with whom he is playing. Chamber, concerto, large scale, small scale, baroque, classical, romantic, modern, it doesn't matter.
Hi-rez is nice, but I'm not exactly pining for more versions of the Sibelius violin concerto. Edit: Hey, but I'll listen to one of the new ones this weekend. Don't get mad!!
Edits: 09/24/16
I'm really amazed by how many old items now in the Sony catalogue are currently available at Acoustic Sounds in 24-bit incarnations. We've already mentioned some of the Munch mono recordings from the big set just released, but there's pre-stereo Menuhin, Arrau, etc. It's probably overkill, and I'm surprised by it, but a number of older recordings are there. In years past, there were waves of mono Gieseking, Callas, etc. albums from EMI/Warner available. So I'd guess it's probably just a matter of time before that Oistrakh/Ormandy recording becomes available in some kind of hi-rez incarnation too. And the nice thing about these downloads is that, once they're up on the given site, they rarely go "out of print" (unless the whole site goes belly-up!).
Had it on lp, thought I'd OD'd on the symphony but this one's as fresh and spirited as can be. Haven't heard transfer though. Monteux's Boston Petrushka up too. Hmmmm.
Hi-rez is fine with me, download or otherwise. Hi-rez reissues of the oldies is a great idea, since mint copies of the original LPs are tough to find at any price.
I do agree with Amphissa that one can listen to the Sibelius violin concerto only so many times. Archivmusic.com lists 126 in print recordings. (A few are duplicates but there are others now apparently oop and not listed.) If he wants to check out only one of the current "babe" recordings, that's entirely understandable.
but apparently previously released as an SACD now the same re-mastering in Hi Rez for that purpose. Now only available as a CD but after streaming it on QOBUZ I went ahead and bought it.
I have a Japanese import Blu-Spec CD of the Oistrakh/Ormandy Sibelius (also coupled with the Tchaikovsky) that sounds terrific. I am not aware of an earlier SACD issue for this coupling, even though you implied that one might have existed. Did I somehow miss this?
BTW, I would not characterize Oistrakh's approach to the Sibelius as "icy." Big and beefy would fit better, IMHO. But this concerto is masterful enough to benefit from widely varying interpretations. I prefer Oistrakh to Heifetz...but that's just me.
Remastered in DSD but perhaps never released as an SACD?
The DSD logo on the back of the CD implies that at some point and for some reason this particular set of tracks was converted to DSD.
Why, if not for an SACD?
And no, I can't find an SACD of this but it would not surprise me if one was released in Asia.
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He did a number of remasterings of titles from the CBS/Sony catalog in DSD, but then a number of his remastered albums were released only on CD (converted to PCM of course) and never released on SACD. I've seen Andreas at a couple of shows - he's a true believer in DSD (like Jared Sachs at Channel Classics), and although I don't share their enthusiasm for that particular digital encoding system, I'm happy to say that both Andreas and Jared do wonderful work in their chosen methodologies.
OTOH, I've also seen postings that the DSD remastering comes from an earlier effort in Japan.
...all the shards fell between my stacks of '50s Gramophones. Was up till 2AM cleaning up.
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